Have you ever been sitting in the stands at a game and overheard (or been the culprit) someone berating the players for messing up? I “love” it when the brilliant fan, or coach for that matter, states the obvious such as, “What are you doing, you’ve got to make that shot!” Or after a turnover, “Watch what you are doing you threw that pass away!” As if the player didn’t already know that…
I have shared many times my philosophy I settled on for coaching and life… Players Play! Coaches Coach! Refs Ref! Fans Cheer! And last week I started sharing some of our culture-changing rules of our MAD Hoops outreach… these are Biblical principles applied to the basketball court… and hopefully beyond to the court of life.
This week I’ll share another one:
Player Is Not A Coach… there is no need to point out when someone else makes a dumb play (that player already realizes it)… but it goes a long way to admit when you make a bad pass or dumb play!
- Matthew 7:3 And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?
I’ll take it a step further and state this is a good rule for “coaches” as well. This is not to eliminate accountability, but when someone has messed up, they are typically fully aware… so even the job of a coach is to give instruction for moving forward… the time for a “coach’ to key on the negative is when the “player” is unaware of what was done wrong. I’ve heard coaches spend entire timeouts harping on what was done wrong instead of giving clear direction of what to do right.
Galatians 6:1 says, “Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any TRESPASS, you who are spiritual RESTORE such a one in a spirit of gentleness…”
TRESSPASS: a lapse or deviation from truth and uprightness….
a “TURNOVER” or “MISSED SHOT”
RESTORE: to strengthen, perfect, make complete, make one what he ought to be… TRUE “COACHING”
Can you imagine how much more pleasurable the game/life
would be if we committed to building each other up instead of tearing each
other down?
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